Applevariety
Marriage-Maker
Also known as Marriage Maker
Marriage Maker
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange-red, streaked deeper redSkin texture smooth or slightly rough, greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white, sometimes tinged red around eye
- Shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 62-66 mmFruit height 57-63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern russet dots and patches
Origin & family
Where Marriage-Maker began
Recorded origin
England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- synonyms
- Marriage Maker
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 62-66 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange-red, streaked deeper red
- russet type
- russet dots and patches
- flesh colour
- creamy white, sometimes tinged red around eye
- fruit height
- 57-63 mm
- skin texture
- smooth or slightly rough, greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.